invade

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To enter a country or area with an army in order to take control of it.

   Enemy troops invaded the small country at dawn.

2. 2
   verb

   To enter a place in large numbers, often where you are not wanted.

   Tourists invade the beach town every summer.

3. 3
   verb

   To interfere with or violate someone's privacy or rights.

   The press should not invade people's private lives.

4. 4
   verb

   To spread harmfully into a body, as a disease or virus does.

   The virus quickly invaded the patient's lungs.

Simplified etymology

Invade entered English in the late Middle Ages from Latin invadere, formed from in-, “into,” and vadere, “to go.” Its early English sense was “to attack or assault a person.”

From Latin invādō (“enter, invade”).

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